"At SOS, Mateo grumbles to Simone about Proteus's aborted plan. "I'm tired of being jerked around!" "Better get used to it," growls a rather inebriated Chris Stamp.
Ryan looks carefully at the inscription on the back of his mother's photo, "Stamp of approval," then angrily grabs his jacket and storms out of his motel room at the PIne Cone. Outside, he grabs a tire iron, upon which Kendall comes up and asks if he plans to murder someone. He hurls the tire iron into the bushes.
Their usual pattern of conversation follows - she taunting, he angry and yelling at her.
In David's hotel room, Anna kisses an apparently sleeping David, and creeps out. As she leaves, David opens his eyes, fully awake. Anna goes to Vanessa's suite and bangs on the door. Vanessa is inside with the body of Larry stretched out on the floor. When Anna picks the lock and opens the door, Vanessa rushes over and tells her to go away, shoving the door shut in Anna's face. Anna sneaks back into David's room, where he is fully dressed awaiting her. They kiss, and he tells her that she is becoming predictable - always sneaking out on him. Anna confesses that she went to see Vanessa. "So the investigation has begun?" David asks, and adds that he wants to know all about it, or he will rat her out to Vanessa. Chris Stamp believes Vanessa knows something about Frankie, Anna tells him, adding that Vanessa is behaving oddly and seems to be cracking up.
Meanwhile, Vanessa is struggling with Larry's dead body. As she drags the body, it falls onto her and she tumbles to the floor. Minutes later, she hears a loud knock on the door. She opens the door slightly to David and Anna and asks them to go away, but they push their way in. David is amazed to see a chair overturned and Vanessa looking as though she's been run over by a truck.
Vanessa puts on a great show for them - Larry was in her room and she fell down after he hit her when she told him it was over between them. She plays it to the hilt, and begs David to look at the cut on her head. As David looks at the cut, Anna watches closely and chews her fingernail pensively. Vanessa says she wishes she had never laid eyes on Larry, and pleads that she was only looking for a little affection. As she talks, Larry's body is stashed in the closet.
Tad is in the park, when he meets Dixie and JR on their way home after going ice skating. Tad says he has been meeting with his lawyer. Dixie tries to interrupt him, saying that perhaps now is not the time. But Tad continues, "You didn't tell him either, did you?" He expands on that, saying that he wasn't informed that Dixie had taken a flight to the Caribbean for a "quickie" divorce. "I'm trying to do what's best for all of us," Dixie claims. It's better to end this quickly than have a long drawn out court hearing, she says. But Tad is hurt and upset that she didn't consult him, or even tell JR. "I don't want this divorce," Tad tells her sadly. "You think I don't know what I'm losing," Dixie retorts. "But I just can't fight any more." JR listens to the exchange, then says he has to go. "I was going to tell you," Dixie tells him.
After JR has gone, she turns on Tad, "How could you say all that in front of him?" But Tad says it's not his fault, and tells her, "We got married together, we'll get divorced together!" and walks off.
Hank and Opal arrive at SOS, and Hank is about to tell Opal something, when Palmer comes in. Opal excuses herself and goes to talk to Palmer, who tells Opals that he is sorry he left it so late before trying to get a top-notch lawyer to defend Erica. Opal consoles him by saying it wouldn't have made any difference. "I'm not going to lose the people I care about," Palmer insists, as Hank closely watches their conversation. Opal is glad that Palmer is reconsidering certain parts of his life, and Palmer says he is also, then leaves.
Opal returns to Hank and asks him what he was going to tell her. He confesses that he's falling in love with her, then goes on to say that he has been offered a singing tour and invites her along. Opal reluctantly refuses, saying her home and her son's home is PV. Hank believes Opal has some unfinished issues with her ex-husband, which Opal doesn't deny.
At another table, a confused Mateo is puzzled by Chris's behavior. "I have never trusted you," Mateo said, counting off all the occupations Chris has had in Pine Valley. "Now you're Erica's defense lawyer. What's the real story, who are you?" Chris leans toward him and mutters threateningly, "You don't ever want to know, believe me!" Mateo is puzzled even more when Chris asks him what it's like to be a father. Mateo won't discuss his sons with Stamp, who goes on by half mumbling to himself, "She should've told me about the boy!" He stumbles to his feet and staggers out the door.
Simone asks Mateo what that was all about. Mateo doesn't know, saying Chris was going on about some boy. "When I look at him I don't see Proteus at all. I see someone who was hurt real bad."
After hearing Vanessa's tirade about Larry, David is eager to go and find Larry, but Vanessa begs him not to. She just wants her two sons to stop attacking her, saying she needs time to heal.
Palmer comes home at that point, and demands to know what's going on. He heads for the closet - Vanessa stops him in his tracks and recovers quickly, saying David and Anna are helping to plan a party. Palmer has never seen David as a party planner, but Vanessa says it's a surprise birthday party for Palmer. She takes Palmer's coat from him, thanks David and Anna, and hustles them out.
Outside, a bemused David is puzzled over Vanessa's mood swings. "She needs professional help." But Anna believes that Vanessa was fully in control the whole time. As they return to David's room, she explains how Vanessa cleverly kept the focus on herself. "A good con always controls the focus. She's so into something!" David decides to call for reinforcements. "I need to see you as soon as possible. It's about Vanessa," he says into the phone.
Palmer resists Vanessa's offer for an early night. "I want a cozy might with my gorgeous husband," she coos. But Palmer tells her he's restless and wants to visit Erica. Alone again, Vanessa mutters to herself, "So on to Plan B - find someone to remove the remains," and heads to an adjoining room. Seconds later, the door opens, and Palmer returns. "I forgot my scarf," he grumbles, and makes for the closet.
Kendall and Ryan continue their verbal battle outside the Pine Cone. Kendall picks up the photo of Ryan's mother, which he has dropped. Teasingly, she tucks it down her sweater and challenges him to get it. Finally, she hands it over. She tells him she heard to angry confrontation between him and Stamp. "Did he and your mother have a 'thing'?" she asks. Ryan is furious and tells her to go to hell. "Poor angry Ryan," she taunts. "You'd rather be mad than get out there and do something with your life. I may be vindictive, but at least I'm not a coward! Well, it's been nice chatting with you," and returns to her room.
As Chris puts on his crash helmet and gets onto his motor bike, a car come screeching up, headlights blazing at Ryan. He yells, "Slow down!" Ryan scampers away before falling to the ground ..."
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